And it was so with him now. The reaction had overcome him,
and he could not bring himself to pretend that it was not so. The
tears would come to his eyes, and he would shiver and shake like one
struck by palsy.
Mr. Monk came to him often, and was all but forgiven for the apparent
defection in his faith. "I have made up my mind to one thing,"
Phineas said to him at the end of the ten days.
"And what is the one thing?"
"I will give up my seat."
"I do not see a shadow of a reason for it."
"Nevertheless I will do it. Indeed, I have already written to Mr.
Ratler for the Hundreds. There may be and probably are men down
at Tankerville who still think that I am guilty. There is an
offensiveness in murder which degrades a man even by the accusation.
I suppose it wouldn't do for you to move for the new writ."
"Ratler will do it, as a matter of course. No doubt there will be
expressions of great regret, and my belief is that they will return
you again."
"If so, they'll have to do it without my presence.
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